Ian Parker

Ian Parker is Professor of Psychology in the Discourse Unit at Manchester

Metropolitan University, UK. He is widely published, and his books include 'The Crisis
in Modern Social Psychology' (1989), 'Psychoanalytic Culture: Psychoanalytic
Discourse in Western Society' (1997), 'Critical Discursive Psychology' (2002), 'Slavoj
Zizek: A Critical Introduction' (2004) and 'Psychoanalytic Practice and State
Regulation' (2008).

Deconstructing Psychotherapy
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Ian Parker30 martie 1999

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`I enjoyed this book, and think that it should find a grateful and attentive readership in the
practical field as well as being a central text in academic settings. It will also be well received by
those, like myself, for whom the interest is more in deconstructing than psychotherapy'
- Dialogues
This book takes the discursive and postmodern turn in psychotherapy a significant step forward
and will be of interest to all those working in mental health who are concerned with challenges to
oppression and processes of emancipation. It achieves this by: reflecting on the role of
psychotherapy in contemporary culture; developing critiques of language in psychotherapy that
unravel its claims to personal truth; and the reworking of a place in the transformative therapeutic
practice.
Deconstruction is brought to bear on the key conceptual and pragmatic issues that therapists and
clinical psychologists face, and the project of therapy is opened up to critical attention and
reconstruction. The book provides clear reviews of different viewpoints and will help readers to
understand the complex terrain of debates.
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Discourse Dynamics (Psychology Revivals):
Critical Analysis for Social and Individual
Psychology

Ian Parker26 ianuarie 2014

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What are discourses? Are discourses ‘real’, and what is real outside language?
In this book, originally published in 1992, Ian Parker provides one of the clearest and most
systematic introductions to discourse research and the essential theoretical debates in the area.
At the time it was one of the few texts to defend a realist position, discuss accounts of
postmodernity and set out criteria for the identification of discourses.
Discourse Dynamics
is essential reading to anyone interested in project research and an understanding of the
theoretical issues involved in discourse analysis. The book will also be of use to students other
than those studying psychology. It addresses the concerns of all those looking at qualitative
textual research in the human sciences and is still very much relevant today.

Psychoanalytic Mythologies

Ian Parker31 decembrie 2010

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'Psychoanalytic Mythologies' presents a collection of essays on the theme of what it is to be a
human subject in a culture permeated by psychoanalytic imagery. The author disturbs the
strongly-held belief of those in thrall to psychoanalysis that it is universally true, and this thesis
forms the recurrent motif that binds these essays together. Instead he argues that psychoanalysis
functions as something that is only ever locally true. These arguments are elaborated upon in a
range of contexts, from night clubs, garages and trains to theme parks, magic circles and yoga,
and the different strands are distilled into a cohesive thesis in the definitive final essay
'Psychoanalytic Myth Today'.
The essays presented here were initially published in scattered newsletters and journals, and
were written intermittently in a period stretching back over ten years. Ian Parker has written
widely in this area, and these lively and innovative essays taken together form a searing
manifesto against the accepted dogmas of psychoanalysis.
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Psychology After Lacan: Connecting the clinic

and research

Ian Parker26 iunie 2014

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 Ian Parker has been a leading light in the fields of critical and discursive psychology for over 25
years. The Psychology After Critique series brings together for the first time his most important
papers. Each volume in the series has been prepared by Ian Parker and presents a newly written
introduction and focused overview of a key topic area.
Psychology After Lacan
is the sixth volume in the series and addresses three central questions:
 Why is Lacanian psychoanalysis re-emerging in mainstream contemporary psychology?
 What is original in this account of the human subject?
 What implications does Lacanian psychoanalysis have for psychology?
This book introduces Lacan’s influential ideas about clinical psychoanalysis and contemporary
global culture to a new generation of psychologists. The chapters cover a number of key themes
including conceptions of the human subject within psychology, the uses of psychoanalysis in
qualitative research, different conceptions of ethics within psychology, and the impact of
cyberspace on human subjectivity. The book also explores key debates currently occurring in
Lacanian psychoanalysis, with discussion of culture, discourse, identification, sexuality and the
challenge to mainstream notions of normality and abnormality.
Psychology After Lacan
is essential reading for students and researchers in psychology, psycho-social studies, sociology,
social anthropology and cultural studies, and to psychoanalysts of different traditions engaged in
academic research. It will also introduce key ideas and debates within critical psychology to
undergraduates and postgraduate students across the social sciences.
 Psychology After Discourse Analysis: Concepts,
methods, critique

Ian Parker10 iulie 2014

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Ian Parker has been a leading light in the fields of critical and discursive psychology for over 25
years. The Psychology After Critique series brings together for the first time his most important
papers. Each volume in the series has been prepared by Ian Parker and presents a newly written
introduction and focused overview of a key topic area.
Psychology After Discourse Analysis
is the third volume in the series and addresses three central questions:
 How did discourse analysis develop inside psychology?
 How does discursive psychology address concerns about the traditional ‘laboratory experiment’
paradigm in psychology?
 What is the future for discourse analysis?
The book provides a clear account of the various forms of discourse analysis that have been
used within psychology, and provides a review of their significance for a new generation of
psychologists. The early chapters present a framework for understanding the origins of these
various forms, as well as the differences between them. Emphasizing the gap between discursive
psychology and mainstream psychology, Parker then explores relations between discourse
analysis, psychoanalysis, social constructionism and the postmodern turn in the social sciences.
The final chapters describe the limitations of discourse analysis and explore its flaws as a
framework and as a practice, questioning its future within academia and in political and social
contexts beyond psychology.
Psychology After Discourse Analysis
is essential reading for students and researchers in psychology, sociology, social anthropology
and cultural studies, and for discourse analysts of different traditions. It will also introduce key
ideas and debates within critical psychology to undergraduates and postgraduate students across
the social sciences.
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